A novel about mid-20th century Italy: Miri, a Jewish girl from London marries an Italian communist nobleman, but her safety is threatened when Mussolini’s Fascist government begins deporting Jews to the death camps. Miri escapes to England, leaving her son in her husband’s hands. Local politics takes a hand in their fate, however, with terrible consequences. When the war ends, Miri returns to a devastated Italy, seeking a reckoning. If needs be, revenge.

Who Was That Lady? tells the story of Roland Watkins, a young archaeologist who helps to invent an entirely new form of therapy, using as its inspiration the cave art created between 12,000 and 17,000 years ago during the Magdalenian culture, in the deep caverns of South-West France. Magdalenian therapy, as its inventors call it, sweeps the world. But at the height of his success, Roley Watkins begins to suffer from delusions that threaten his sanity. He needs help. How is one to help a healer whose own mind cannot be trusted?.

A history teacher abandons his life and takes to the roads of Britain, where after many years of solitary travel by foot, he has become a mute. One night, waking from woodland sleep, he witnesses a murder. He winds up sharing a house with the murderer, his life once more transformed.